Tales from the Jungle: Margaret Mead
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2 men interviewed 60 year old woman in Samoan Islands: Fa Ah Pua
Mead’s reputation a lie?
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America’s first woman of science: well-known
middle class, academic
father: economist/mother: sociologist
racism/cultural differences: biological, genetically, sociologically inferior
anthropologists supported this
savagery: dark skin
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Franz Boas: towards nurture
adolescence: culturally construct, varied
proof that nurture also has a role
Margaret Mead: student of Boas
chosen to do study of adolescents in Samoa [Polynesia]
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August 1925: Mead arrived in Tu Tu Ila, Samoa
different from paradise the Mead expected
more westernized
Mead looking for somewhere more uncivilized’
had to learn the language [not normal of those times-usually learn about
grammer]
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relocated to remote island
loneliness & culture shock
might have to live with host family, but lived with an American naval family
drawbacks to living with natives [decrease efficiency]
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- Fall '11
- Dr.SharynJones
- Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Margaret Mead, Samoa, American Samoa, Franz Boas, Samoans
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